Tuesday, October 25, 2011

NEW YORK: DAY THREE

On Thursday we went in search of a more reasonable breakfast, and spotted a place called Lindy's Diner. It looked like the sort of place where, back in Texas, you'd find a $3.99 breakfast special.  It was not.  The food was bad, the service grumpy, and still it cost us fifty bucks.  But that did not keep us from having a faaab-u-lous day!
First we went exploring down the Avenue of the Americas, towards Rockefeller Center, where young Kevin works.  We saw the Statue of Liberty...
did some souvenir shopping for the kids at the NBC store...

It's filled with M&Ms!
happened to be there for opening day of the infamous skating rink...
and bought a macaron at Bouchon, chef Thomas Keller's take on a French boulangerie.  It was a very good morning!

After a quick clean up back at the hotel, we then headed over to my cousin's loft apartment, just a few blocks off broadway.  Cousin Jerry is a very cool, very interesting guy. Imagine growing up on a ranch in Bogata, Texas (pronounced buh-GO-duh), and somehow making your way to Prop Manager on Broadway!  But then, all his siblings are like that.  His older brother started out as a rodeo clown, and now travels the country producing rodeos.  My uncle, he didn't raise no slackers!  Anyhoo, Jerry had made reservations for lunch at a very special place, but since we had a bit of time to kill, we got to see his gorgeous apartment (why didn't I take any photos?!) with fabulous artwork from some of the theatre greats, then we took a leisurely stroll through Central Park to get to our luncheon spot, Jean Georges, in one of the Trump buildings.  We decided to go whole-hog, and ordered the six-course tasting menu, which was uh-MA-zing, but there are no pictures of that either.  Not because I forgot this time, but because this place was so fancy-schmancy I was just too intimidated to whip out my camera.  I was afraid my poor cousin would be mortified!

When we'd finally finished lunch, at about 4:00, we returned to the hotel for a little rest up.  We needed it, after all the walking we'd done that day!  (I don't know how anyone could be overweight in NYC).  Then it was back to Broadway for our final show, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert -- but more about that later!


An interesting sculpture of construction workers perched on a beam, having lunch, that travels around town mounted atop this little truck.

2 comments:

Nellie said...

We made the same mistake eating at Lindy Diner, some years back. ugh! And I don't think there are very many overweight New Yorkers, at lesat not the ones living in the city who walk everywhere!

Hill Country Hippie said...

We finally found a good breakfast place the very last morning (more about it in the next post). Too bad we didn't find it sooner, but at least we'll know better the next time!